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Stereotypes

Stereotypes are
things that everyone in this day in age has to deal with. Everywhere
we look we find ideas that one thought to be typical of a certain
race, ethnic group or age ranges. Pop-culture has its share of
stereotypes. From mass media to published writings stereotypes find a
way to rear up and present themselves to all audiences.

The movie Boy s
Don t Cry is a depiction of the true story of a female, Tina Brandon,
wanting to become a man, Brandon Tina. Although she doesn t make it
to the surgery to physically become a man, she still takes on the
role of what she thought was the stereotypical man. Going for a ride
on the back of a pick up truck was one of the things she did to
ensure her friends that she was a man. She also felt that the
stereotypical man drank beer all day and did drugs, so in turn she
began to do the same. There were also the sexual relations she had
with females, which were part of what she thought was being a man
also the fact that she confused about her sexual identity.

Another example
of stereotypes in popular culture is seen in the film Merchants of
Cool. To make the big bucks, companies try to target and analyze the
stereotypical teenager. The teenagers they target are the ones that
always go for the spot light, for what is trendy, and the teens that
go for whatever is popular. These teens are a gold mine for retailers
today. MTV spent some time and money with a few kids in order to find
out exactly what it was that was popular, and what it was that they
could make to get people to spend millions of dollars on.

In the essay
Give Her a Pattern by D. H. Lawrence, female stereotypes are
extremely criticized. His main objective is that most if not all
women unceasingly try to adapt themselves to what men think women
should be or act like. He feels that women are afraid to be anything
different then what men want them to be, maybe for the fear of
rejection, or unappreciation. She also points out that prostitution
is the eternal secret ideal of men (Lawrence, Pg. 213). The women who
dress and act slutty, and hang out on street corners are branded with
this stereotype simply because that s what men want. Even if these
skin showing females are just minding their own business and are not
looking to make some money, they are still stereotyped as
prostitutes. If you were to picture a female standing out on the
street in a mini skirt, and a shirt that exposed most of their
stomach, you can imagine the thoughts of people both men and women
that pass by.

The Stereotype
by Germaine Greer, deals with the idea that women should be dressed
in the finest clothes, and have all the riches they want. Greer gives
the idea that the woman is a showcase for her mate. The man gets to
buy her things and make her more and more beautiful, then she goes
out and shows it all off. Another stereotypical idea that is
portrayed in this writing is that men are the ones to go off to work
all day while the woman wonders the streets, and the finest stores,
and hotels, with her husbands money, buys whatever she wants and then
has enough time to come home, greet her mate from a hard days work,
and have dinner ready on the table. In my opinion this stereotype is
more present in today s society than some people would like to
believe. Women would like to believe that they are exactly equal to
men, that they can do whatever a man can do, and just like a man can
go to work everyday. This is true to some extent, there are things
that women cannot do that men can do, I think football is the only
sport that women haven t tried to take over. Although women want to
portray to all this idea that they are unstoppable, they have to come
to realize that its ok to be different than a man, and that they are
not always going to be the ones making differences.

Stereotypes don
t stop at the home, and with teens, they go all the way to widely
sponsored events such as the Miss U.S.A. Pageant. Studs Terkel has a
writing called Miss USA, this is a personal experience essay where
the writer had her time in the spot light as Miss U.S.A. She didn t
totally regret the idea of becoming this beauty queen but regretted
deeply the ideas that went along with it. She said that when people
speak about beauty queens, there are certain images that the women
are labeled with. One popular image for this situation she refers to
as t and a, tits and ass (Terkel, Pg. 332). The stereotypical beauty
queen is to have a beautiful body and beautiful features. Talent goes
as far as a five minute rehearsed skit that is designed to make the
contestant seem somewhat intelligent. Then the stereotype story goes
on as if the beauty queen has no say in anything. Paraded around to
be shown off then to have her place taken by another beauty.

I don t think we
will ever live in a world without stereotypes. People are just to
accustom to them. They use them for financial gain, to gain a
perspective on, or to judge someone they first meet, and
unfortunately to mock others to gain acceptance by those with the
same views. Though people may be against stereotyping I am pretty
sure that everyone somewhere along the line has taken part in this
cruel way of thinking.

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